The Deadly Bees
| The Deadly Bees | |
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| Directed by | Freddie Francis |
| Screenplay by | Robert Bloch Anthony Marriott |
| Based on | A Taste for Honey by Gerald Heard |
| Produced by | Max J. Rosenberg Milton Subotsky |
| Starring | Suzanna Leigh Guy Doleman Frank Finlay |
| Cinematography | John Wilcox |
| Edited by | Oswald Hafenrichter |
| Music by | Wilfred Josephs |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Deadly Bees is a 1967 British horror film based on H. F. Heard's 1941 novel A Taste for Honey. It was directed by Freddie Francis, and stars Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman, and Frank Finlay. The original screenplay was by Robert Bloch but was rewritten by Anthony Marriott. The film was released theatrically in the United States in 1967 and was featured in a 1998 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Heard's novel, which was a sort of Sherlock Holmes pastiche, had been previously adapted for television as a 60-minute drama episode of The Elgin Hour: season 1, episode 11 under the title "Sting of Death" (22 February 1955), starring Boris Karloff as the detective character from Heard's novel, Mr. Mycroft. According to H. F. Heard's official website, kinescopes of this TV dramatisation survive, and, in 2014, it was made commercially available for home video as one of several features in a DVD, released by Synergy Entertainment, titled Sherlock Holmes: The Archive Collection Vol. 1.